File property used to determine whether the servers’ or the clients’ file
is more recent. Standard procedure in oCC 1.0.5 and earlier, used by
oCC 1.1 and later only when no sync database exists and files already
exist in the client directory.

ownCloud Server

The server counter part of ownCloud Client as provided by the ownCloud
community.

ownCloud Sync Client

ownCloud Client

Name of the official ownCloud syncing client for desktop, which runs on
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It uses the CSync sync engine for
synchronization with the ownCloud server.

unique id

ETag

ID assigned to every file starting with ownCloud server 4.5 and submitted
via the HTTP Etag. Used to check if files on client and server have
changed.